President-elect Barack Obama spent much of Tuesday honoring the memory of the grandmother who raised him, and then scattering her ashes at Lnai Lookout on Oahu's rugged southeast coastline, the same spot where Obama scattered the ashes of his mother after her death in 1995.

A federal judge has banned MGA Entertainment from making and selling its hugely popular Bratz dolls in a sweeping decision that rival Mattel hailed as a major victory in the companies' the four-year doll fight.

First lady Laura Bush soon will no longer live in the country's most famous mansion or be able to get away to the coveted Camp David presidential retreat. But beyond the perks, she says what she will miss most about being first lady are the staff and friends who surround her.

President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, said their young daughters will still have to do chores in the White House and won't get out of doing homework just because they're the president's children.